In your article about the upcoming "Elvis On Tour" box set, you mentioned that a revised version of the film came out in 1987. But so many of us fans want the entire on tour film concerts and rehearsals re-masterd and released. JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres.

Ken Zemke was the documentary's primary editor, [10] while Martin Scorsese edited the film's montage. Though attired in a flamboyant jumpsuit and backed by a grandiose ensemble, Elvis frequently projects intimacy on the poignant likes of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" and Kris Kristofferson's "For the Good Times" while bringing reverence to "How Great Thou Art. If you think and look, about the MSQ concerts, afterwards, it of course should have been captured on film professionally. Most disappointing to me is the neglect of Ronnie Tutt's drums - a bit more present in the quiet parts, but way too much in the background especially in the groovy parts.

Various releases, including two box sets (one by RCA/Legacy and the other by RCA's Elvis Presley collectors' label Follow That Dream Records, or FTD), finally occurred in 2022, 2023, and 2024 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film and the concerts and rehearsals recorded for it. Hardin (piano), James Burton, Charlie Hodge, and John Wilkinson (guitars), Ron Tutt (drums), and Jerry Scheff or Emery Gordy (bass) as well as The Joe Guercio Orchestra and background vocalists The Sweet Inspirations, Kathy Westmoreland, and J. Pictures' epic big-screen drama, ELVIS, from filmmaker Baz Luhrmann, starring Austin Butler in the title role and Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis' longtime manager and technical advisor. As Elvis Presley's national tour played to sold-out secondary markets across the country in 1972, Elvis was enjoying himself on-stage and finding electrifying new ways of connecting to audiences at every show.

After fifty years from the first 'Elvis: On Tour' movie and twenty years since Ernst and Roger told us that they were “giving Turners a little more time” there are a pile of missed opportunities in this box-set.Elvis On Tour – The Rehearsals: Released by FTD at the end of last year and they sure saved the best for last.